Stoddard v. Grand Trunk Western Railway Co.

Plaintiffs were copartners engaged in general merchandising in the village of Perry, Shiawassee county, where they ran a store located in the so-called “Brown building,” which was destroyed, ‘with its contents, on July 6, 1913, by a fire claimed to have been originally ignited by sparks emitted from an engine of defendant. This fire, which spread to and destroyed numerous other buildings, started in the roof of an elevator building located between 30 and 40 feet south of defendant’s tracks, which ran northeasterly and southwesterly through the village. The elevator was 80 feet long east and…